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To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the article in the
Guardian entitled A demeaning environment: stories of racism in UK universities, published
5 July 2019, if he will hold discussions with the Office for Students on their assessment
of the scale and nature of racism in UK universities.

<p>There is no place in our society, including within higher education (HE) for hatred
or any form of harassment, discrimination or racism.</p><p> </p><p>The government
is working closely with the Universities UK (UUK) and the Office for Students (OfS)
to support work to address racism and other forms of harassment in HE, including implementation
of UUK’s Sexual Violence and Harassment Taskforce’s recommendations.</p><p> </p><p>Ministers
and officials in the department meet regularly with the OfS, stakeholders and representative
bodies about a range of student experience issues including racism, hate crime and
harassment in HE. This includes specific quarterly meetings with the OfS to discuss
how to tackle harassment and hate crime, including racism within the sector.</p><p>
</p><p>In its ministerial guidance, the government has asked the OfS to support this
work and to make campuses places of tolerance for all students, and over £2 million
has been invested in projects addressing hatred and harassment in HE.</p><p>The government
will continue to work closely with the OfS to prioritise tackling of all forms of
harassment and hate crime in higher education.</p><p> </p>